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NEUROLOGY
From Theoretical Model to Practical Exploration
by Tao Wang (Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, China), Zhongqing Xu (Tongren Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China) & Yi Mou (School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
People in general are concerned about the health of themselves and their families, but they lack reliable access to health knowledge. In order to ensure that people get accurate medical knowledge, dissemination of such knowledge by medical professionals is advocated. This is the basis of medical communication. This book covers the theoretical model of medical communication, explains the differences from medical science popularization and health communication, and from the perspective of medical practice, provides many examples to illustrate the practical application and significance of medical communication. It is hoped that this book will attract more people to join the team of medical communicators, pass the correct medical knowledge to the public, and ultimately the incidence and mortality of diseases can be reduced and the health level of people improved.
344pp Aug 2020 978-1-945552-09-0 US$108 £95
REVMED 300 SBAS IN CLINICAL SPECIALTIES
by Lasith Ranasinghe (Imperial College London, UK) & Oliver Clements (Imperial College London, UK)
RevMED 300 SBAs in Clinical Specialties is a book of 300 single best answer questions covering a range of topics in paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology and psychiatry. These topics are the focus of 4th or 5th Year examinations in most medical school curriculums and have usually been separated from topics in general medicine and surgery.
372pp Mar 2020 978-1-78634-846-3 US$108 £95 978-1-78634-852-4(pbk) US$48 £40
NEUROLOGY
MEMORY MAKES THE BRAIN
The Biological Machinery that Uses Experiences to Shape Individual Brains
by Christian Hansel (The University of Chicago, USA)
The development of the young brain after birth and the emergence of cognitive capacities, mind, and individuality rest on the maturation of a dense net of synaptic connections between neurons. Memory Makes the Brain describes the dramatic, competitive elimination of surplus synapses that occur in the young, maturing brain — in a process called synaptic pruning that was discovered by pediatric neurologist Peter Huttenlocher in the 1970’s at the University of Chicago. Explaining similarities between developmental pruning and learning processes in the adult brain, neurobiologist Christian Hansel offers a unique perspective on brain adaptation and plasticity throughout lifetime, at times weaving in personal accounts and memories.
THE WHITE BOOK OF NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION
A Beginner’s Essential
by You Jiang Tan (National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore) This book serves to demystify the seemingly convoluted processes behind the neurologic examination, with chapters focussing on bringing the reader back to the basics, breaking complicated techniques down into its individual steps, supplemented by clear and concise explanation of neurologic principles. The book discusses neurologic signs and symptoms commonly encountered in our daily practice, with flow-charts, pictures and tables to help the reader learn, shape and build a solid foundation in neurology.
400pp Oct 2021 978-981-123-923-6 US$138 £120 978-981-123-983-0(pbk) US$58 £50
STRATEGIC LEARNING
A Holistic Approach to Studying
by Robert K Kamei (National University of Singapore, Singapore & Duke University, USA) “Learning scientists have done a good job of getting their findings to instructors to help them improve their teaching. But so much of learning is under the student’s — and only the student’s — control. Strategic Learning fills a critical need to educate students on what the field knows about how to learn productively. We should be getting it into the hands of every university student.” Lori Breslow Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Founding Director, MIT Teaching & Learning Laboratory
200pp Jul 2021 978-981-122-663-2 US$58 £50 978-981-122-777-6(pbk) US$28 £25
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This journal aims to publish high quality, original research articles, expository tutorial papers and review papers as well as short, critical comments on technical issues associated with the analysis of cellular information. The research papers will be technical presentations of new assertions, discoveries and tools, intended Check out the FREE articles online! for a narrower specialist community. The tutorials, reviews and critical commentary will be targeted at a broader readership of biologists who are interested in using computers but are not knowledgeable about scientific computing, and equally, computer scientists who have an interest in biology but are not familiar with current thrusts nor the language of biology. Such carefully chosen tutorials and articles should greatly accelerate the rate of entry of these new creative scientists into the field. From June 2021, the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology also considers in silico studies of exceptional merits.
